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This Pod was last updated December 2018 and has now been archived. For recent information on students, see the Student outcomes Pod.
Students, the main client group of education and training systems, are a very diverse group. This group can include those studying at home or in a different country and under various arrangements such as formal qualifications at all levels, non-credit bearing courses, competency training in the workplace, or learning through mentoring relationships. Non-traditional students can include those beyond traditional school age and those from groups who have been historically under-represented, particularly in post compulsory education. Research in this area focuses on student motivations for learning, participation in, and outcomes of, education and training and the quality of delivery methods.
Research
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- Attainment
- Completion
- Employability
- International students
- Learner voice
- Non-traditional students
- Re-entry students
- Special needs students
- Student choice
- Student services
Recent publications
- Assessing the importance of cultural capital on post-secondary education attendance in Canada
- Comparing completion agendas at community colleges and global counterparts
- Completion rates of higher education students: cohort analysis, 2005-2014 [Australia]
- Employment and earnings outcomes of higher education graduates by subject and institution: experimental statistics using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data [UK]
- Estimating returns to college attainment: comparing survey and state administrative data based estimates [US]
- Graduates' experiences of, and attitudes towards, the inclusion of employability-related support in undergraduate degree programmes: trends and variations by subject discipline and gender [UK]
- Interactions in vocational education: negotiation of meaning of students and teaching strategies [Netherlands]
- Mismatch: how many workers with a bachelor's degree are overqualified for their jobs? [US]
- Persistence of college students in the South Korean Academic Credit Bank System
- The relative labour market performance of former international students: evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
- The role of high-school duration for university students' motivation, abilities and achievements [Germany]
- Towards a reframing of student support: a case study approach [Australia]
- Want students to engage?: contextualise graduate learning outcomes and assess for employability [Australia]
- What happens to graduates?: contrasting views of two systems [US]
- Why lecturers still matter: the impact of lecturer-student exchange on student engagement and intention to leave university prematurely [Australia]
Resources
General
- America as 100 college students
- Association for Nontraditional Students in Higher Education [US]
- Australian landmark reports
- Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study [US]
- Council of International Students Australia (CISA)
- First Year in Higher Education (FYHE) Centre [Australia]
- Graduate Careers Australia
- Higher Education Careers Services Unit [UK]
- International students research snapshots [Australia]
- International Student Survey [Australia]
- Linked Learning [US]
- National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition [US]
- National Student Survey [UK]
- Student Voice and Skills: Learning from Scottish experiences
- The post-study earnings and destinations of young, domestic graduates [New Zealand]
- The Student Voice: Effective Representation and Quality (New Zealand Union of Students' Associations and Ako Aotearoa research project) [New Zealand]
- Universities equip people with the skills to succeed (infographic)
Statistical
Featured author
Ly Thi Tran
Ly Thi Tran is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University and an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow. Her research focuses on student mobility, internationalisation in VET, pedagogy and curriculum in international education and Vietnamese higher education.
Ly has been awarded three grants on international student mobility and staff professional development in international vocational education by the Australian Research Council. Ly’s book, ‘Teaching international students in vocational education: new pedagogical approaches’, won the 2014 International Education Association of Australia Excellence Award for Best Practice/Innovation in International Education.
Ly is a lead investigator of a project entitled ‘New Colombo Plan: Australians as international students in Asia’ with colleagues from Deakin University and University of Adelaide. Her DECRA project funded by the Australian Research Council aims to analyse teachers' and general staff's professional development needs and practices within the context of international vocational education. Ly co-edits a forthcoming book entitled ‘Internationalisation in vocational education and training: transnational perspectives’ with Kate Dempsey. This book addresses the emerging trends, policies and practices in internationalisation in different VET systems across Australia, Europe, America and the Asia Pacific region.
Recent publications
- 'I am really expecting people to judge me by my skills': ethnicity and identity of international students [Australia]
- 'I'm not like that, why treat me the same way?': the impact of stereotyping international students on their learning, employability and connectedness with the workplace [Australia]
- 'Get foot in the door': international students' perceptions of work integrated learning [international]
- Internationalisation at home for tourism training programmes: case studies from Vietnam
- Internationalization in vocational education and training: transnational perspectives [international]
- Mobility as 'becoming': a Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility [international]
- Pathway from vocational education and associate degree to higher education: Chinese international students in Australia
- Re-imagining teachers' identity and professionalism under the condition of international education [international]
- 'Responsibility in mobility': international students and social responsibility [Australia]
- Teacher professional learning in international education: practice and perspectives from the vocational education and training sector [Australia]
A list of Ly’s work is available on her institutional profile
Collected works and publications by Ly in VOCEDplus
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs [US]
- Delivering opportunities for students and maximising their success: evidence for policy and practice 2015-2020 [UK]
- Determinants and impacts of student mobility: a literature review [Europe]
- Enabling retention: processes and strategies for improving student retention in university-based enabling programs [Australia]
- Issues for students navigating alternative pathways to higher education: barriers, access and equity: a literature review [Australia]
- Never too late to learn: mature students in higher education [UK]
- Non-traditional students making their way in higher education: an Australian case study
- Student voice in tertiary education settings: quality systems in practice [New Zealand]